Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Sat 13 Dec 2008 05:20:45p, SteveB told us...
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>>My wife and mother in law (I see where my wife got it) have the idea
>>that if you put something in the refrigerator, there is no such thing as
>>shelf life.
>>
>>"Well, it's been in the refrigerator," is the common answer to "Is this
>>good?"
>>
>>I finally made a rule that if you can't tell me when it was cooked, I
>>won't eat it................ Oh, I cooked that last week some time
>>.............. Was it Thursday, or the Thursday before .........
>>
>>I'm telling you, we went through the Clorox wipes thing after she saw it
>>on Oprah, and wiped down everything in the kitchen if so much as a fly
>>landed on anything in the kitchen including the ceiling, but she will
>>leave chicken to thaw from 7 AM to 4 PM in the sink at 70 F.
>>
>>I need to get ahold of Oprah and have her do a show on shelf life and
>>kitchen safety foods.
>>
>>I mean, it can have brown mold on it, be unrecognizable, and she will
>>still say, "I don't understand it. It's been in the refrigerator."
>>
>>Help me out. I've tried explaining it. Some good sites that I could
>>send to her friends, and they could forward to her (she won't believe it
>>if it comes from me, but her friends and Oprah are Goddesses).
>>
>>Steve
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>
> Perhaps if you can't convince your wife that virtually foods have a shelf
> life, refrigerated or not, that you will have to assign *her* a shelf life.
> :-)
>

Either that or stage midnight command raids on the fridge, eliminating
suspect foods.

I'll never forget being invited to dinner at my future parent-in-laws
house and being offered previously opened bottled salad dressings that
were FIVE YEARS out of date.

That was just the tip of the extremely disgusting iceberg.

And years later, my MIL, a prime example of Darwin's Hammer, was
offended when I declined to leave our infant daughter with her for
overnight visits.